William Butler Yeats by Meaghan, Sean, Alex, and Gabrielle

William Butler Yeats

The Falling of Leaves

Autumn is over the long leaves that love us,

and over the mice in barley sheaves;

Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us,

And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves.

The hour of the waning of love has beset us,

And weary and worn are our sad souls now;

Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us,

With a kiss and tear on thy drooping brow.






William Butler Yeats' life story:

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William Butler Yeats was born in the year of 1865 in County Dublin,Ireland. He was an Irish poet and dramatist, Mr. Yeats won the first Irish nobel prize for literature in 1923. Many critics consider him the greatest poet of his time. He also led the Irish literary revival."The Countess Cathleen" was the first recited poem in a theater's first production. Mr.Yeats wrote 50 published poems . Before he was a lawyer he wrote poems. All together he wrote 407 poems.He passed away in 1939.










William_Butler_Yeats_-_Copy.jpgIn Williams early years. In this picture he was not a poet, in fact he was still a lawyer.





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William is about 43 years old in this photo.Around this time he wasn't writing poems, but his most recent one was "Adam's Curse".





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Now, William is in his late 50's. He has just finished writing "Easter, 1916", "A Prayer on Going into My House", "A Prayer for My Daughter", and "A Prayer for My Son"," A Man Young And

Old " has 10 different versions. If you click on the link above you can read all ten of them, and other poems.



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